A few notes on choosing between Go and D for a quick project

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On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 03:43:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I.e. there isn't low level C code that effectively uses SIMD 
> vector registers. You have to use the auto-vectorizer, which 
> tries to reconstruct high level operations out of C low level 
> code, then recompile.

I don't think low level hardware registers qualify as "high level 
constructs" which is the term you used. Besides, all major C 
compilers ship with builtin vector types and support for standard 
hardware vendor SIMD intrinsics. But even if you dismiss that, 
then even less sophisticated contemporary compiler is capable of 
using SIMD for carefully manually unrolled expressions. Still, 
even without explicit simd instructions the superscalar nature of 
desktop CPUs require you to break dependencies to avoid bubbles 
in the pipeline.

So in order to optimize the filling of an array with the 
fibonacci sequence a plain high level library generator is 
insufficient. You also need to utilize the closed formula for 
fib(x) so that you can generate sequences in parallel, e.g. 
compute the sequence fib(0),fib(1)… in parallel with fib(N), 
fib(N+1) etc.

Without having the closed formula to obtain fib(N-2) and fib(N-1) 
a regular optimizer will simply not be able to break the 
dependencies as effectively as a handwritten low level loop.